Open mike 14/04/2024
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Open mike 13/04/2024
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Daily review 12/04/2024
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National only wants to help tenants *
* get evicted more easily.
Open mike 12/04/2024
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Daily review 11/04/2024
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Open mike 11/04/2024
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Daily review 10/04/2024
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A sustainable environment should be a human right
James Shaw’s attempt to create a right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is expected to be voted down soon by Parliament. But the New Zealand Supreme Court as well as the European Court of Human Rights have shown a willingness to recognise a right to a sustainable environment that some politicians refuse to.
Open mike 10/04/2024
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Daily review 09/04/2024
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Open mike 09/04/2024
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Daily review 08/04/2024
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What if climate collapse comes much sooner than we expected?
“It is simply mind-boggling,” said Prof Michael Meredith, science leader at the British Antarctic Survey. “In sub-zero temperatures such a massive leap is tolerable but if we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population.”
Open mike 08/04/2024
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Back on Track?
National campaigned on the promise of getting the country back on track. How is it going?
Open mike 07/04/2024
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Israel’s latest atrocities
In the past week it has been disclosed that Israel’s Artificial Intelligence driven security system was responsible for the killing of seven international aid workers. And there are reports that Israel directed a missile attack on the Iraqi embassy in Syria.
Open mike 06/04/2024
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Daily review 05/04/2024
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Why the Climate Strike matters (in case we are still thinking the crisis isn’t urgent)
All those climate scientists talking about temperature recently? This is what it means for us, right here, right now, and for the rest of our lives
Strike!
Please choose life today and support the strike in any way you can: attend in person, share information on social media, talk to people you know today about why it matters.
The Government thinks that Local Government should determine what works best for them*
* unless they want to set up Maori wards.
Open mike 05/04/2024
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Daily review 04/04/2024
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Forest and Bird: on the Fast Track Approvals Bill and how to make a submission
“this is going to take all of us using our voice for nature, in all the places we are, to make it clear that we’re not against regulation, we actually quite like it, but we want regulation that is isn’t unbridled and puts power in the hands of Ministers in a way that New Zealand has never seen before.” – Nicola Toki CE of Forest and Bird
Open mike 04/04/2024
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Daily review 03/04/2024
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Open mike 03/04/2024
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Daily review 02/04/2024
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Greenpeace: Luxon bulldozes on in war on nature with 90-day ‘hit list’
Greenpeace is calling the Government’s new policy priority list “the next onslaught in the war on nature” following Christopher Luxon’s announcement this morning.
The future of UK Labour and what it means for Aotearoa
It appears almost inevitable that Keir Starmer will be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. But his taking the party to the right and an active drive to rid the party of left wingers raises the spectre that his Goverment would be a pale immitation of its predecessors.
Open mike 02/04/2024
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Guest Post – I was wrong about rainbows
Guest post by Brian Tamaki where he shares his change of thinking about rainbows.
A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?
Veteran climate activist Cindy Baxter writes about the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on her home town and the challenges of resiliency planning going forward.
Open mike 01/04/2024
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